Month: March 2023

11:53 AM ET Iowa‘s athletics department will pay the entire settlement of more than $4 million to a group of Black former football players who sued the university for alleged racial discrimination. University president Barbara Wilson on Thursday said the athletic department will reimburse $2 million to the state’s general fund for the settlement. Iowa’s
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12:00 PM ET WME Sports is acquiring one of the top NBA representation firms, BDA Sports, and secured BDA founder and prominent agent Bill Duffy as the head of its basketball division. Duffy brings to WME several of the top young players in the NBA — including Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic, 2021 Rookie of
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12:19 PM ET Yankees left-hander Carlos Rodon will start the season on the injured list, the latest blow to New York’s starting rotation before Opening Day. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman announced Thursday that Rodon, the franchise’s prize free agent pitching signing, has a left forearm strain and will not throw for seven to 10
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10:11 AM ET Memphis Grizzlies center Steven Adams is set to be out at least another four weeks after receiving a stem cell injection for the posterior cruciate ligament sprain in his right knee, the team announced Thursday. That likely rules out Adams for the remainder of the regular season. Memphis, which is tied for
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11:37 AM ET Former Arizona Cardinals offensive lineman Kelvin Beachum offered a pointed assessment of Kyler Murray during a recent radio interview, saying the star quarterback “needs to grow up a little bit” in order to lead the franchise. Beachum, a free agent after spending the past three seasons protecting Murray as one of Arizona’s
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10:37 AM ET ESPN staff The World Baseball Classic will feature some of the greatest players MLB has seen in quite some time. Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and more will face off as the global tournament returns for the first time since the pandemic. Then there are the teams where
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9:02 AM ET There is a growing possibility that Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball will need a third surgical procedure on his right knee that likely would require another six months of recovery and rehabilitation, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Ball, who hasn’t appeared in an NBA game since Jan. 14, 2022, and has been
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9:02 AM ET Chase Elliott broke his leg snowboarding last week, keeping him out of Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 in Las Vegas. Sean Gardner/Getty Images People are going to be people. Racers are going to be racers. Chase Elliott? He was doing nothing more than being Chase Elliott. That’s how the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champ broke
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7:50 AM ET The New York Jets are becoming more confident in their chances of landing quarterback Aaron Rodgers, sources close to the situation told ESPN’s Dianna Russini on Thursday. The Jets’ increasing optimism follows their meeting this week with the Green Bay Packers quarterback. A contingent of Jets team officials, including owner Woody Johnson,
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Britain’s Tom Pidcock says winning Strade Bianche is the greatest achievement of his career. The Ineos Grenadiers rider took a commanding breakaway victory at the famous one-day race across Tuscany in Italy on Saturday. Pidcock, 23, also won a stage of the Tour de France on Alpe d’Huez, one of cycling’s legendary climbs, last year.
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